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April 11, 1987

Vol. 2 No. 1 Issue No. 13

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Parking Commission Supports
Mixed Library/Parking Use

The City of Oakland’s Off—Street Parking Commission
voted at its March 20 meeting to endorse the concept of a mixed
use for the Art Stone property combining the Rockndge Branch
Library with a parking facility.

The Commission felt this would be an ideal arrangement
convenient for users of the Library and for the general shopping
public.

A committee of representatives from the College Avenue
Merchants Association (CAMA), the Rockridge Community
Planning Council (RCPC) and the Neighborhood has been
meeting with the Public Works Department to develop a variety
of mixed-use proposals for The Art Stone property. Library
use has always been considered a strong possibility.

Finding a suitable location for the Rockridge Branch became
an acute issue recently when the new owner of the building
housing the library announced his intention to raise the rent to
$60,000 a year.

Library Director Lee White and Assistant City Manager
Craig Kocian spoke at the RCPC March General Meeting to
describe their concerns and efforts on behalf of the Rockridge
Branch Library.

Contacted later by phone, Director White said she was
anxious to solve the Branch location problem on a temporary
and on a long-term basis. “We are investigating every
possibility we or anybody else can think of,” she said.
Neighbors are encouraged to call Ms. White’s office (273-3281)
with suggestions and comments.

The City Library Commission will discuss the Rockridge
Branch location problem at its regularly—scheduled meeting on
Thursday, April 30, 4:30 P.M. in the 2nd floor conference room
of the Main Library. The meeting is open to the public. A
general discussion of the City Library’s budget is also on the

agenda.

Grassroots Neighborhood Planning

Rockridge Area Specific
Plan: Now It’s Up To Us!

Fifteen years ago, the Rockridge community, led by RCPC
and the College Avenue Merchants Association (CAMA),
created special zoning for College Avenue and the adjacent
residential neighborhoods. We created the C-31 and R-35 zones
then, and now we are the ones best suited to review them,
improve them and add to them where necessary through the
creation of a Rockidge Area Specific Plan (RASP).

The idea of the Rockridge Area Specific Plan is NOT to get
rid of our C-31 or R-35 zones, but rather to refine or fine tune
them to better reflect current needs and future goals.

The preparation of a Rockridge Area Specific Plan is a major
undertaking requiring tremendous amounts of data-gathering,
documentation, and community review. Usually the City
Planning Department prepares such documents because it is the
City department responsible for implementing the Plan.
However, the Oakland City Planning staff already is overloaded
and underfinanced.

Rockridge wants its own Specific Plan. So does Upper
Telegraph Avenue. So do several other Oakland neighborhoods

about to embark on special planning and zoning projects.
The City Council presently is reluctant to authorize

preparation of RASP or any other Neighborhood planning
project given current City budget restraints.

City Council Votes Its Intent

At its March 31st meeting, the City Council agreed to give
Rockridge a chance to come up with “in-house” experts who
would volunteer to assist the City Planning staff in the

Tur to “Grassroots”, page 4

Wednesday Apr 15 1:30 pm

Wednesday Apr 15 7:30 pm

Tuesday Apr 21

Tuesday Apr 28 7:30 pm Oakland City
Thursday Apr 30 4:30 pm

Planning Commission Room 115 City Hall. Public Hearings on:
¢ Fitness Lab (Rockridge Court) Major Conditional Use Permit and Minor
Variance for an Athletic Training Facility (Continued from Apmil 1). Page 4.
¢ Wilson Associates Application for Major Conditional Use Permit
for General Food Sales at Market Hall. Page 4.
RCPC April General Meeting, College Avenue Presbyterian Church.
RASP Committees; Use Permit Applications.

All Day | @ VOTE/YOUR CANDIDATES for City Council and School Board!
Council: Telegraph Avenue Recycling Center Appeal of

Planning Commission denial of permit to operate.
City Library Commission: Oakland Main Library, 2nd Floor Conference
Room-— discussion of Rockridge Branch Library Location. Page 1.

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A ROCKRIDGE DIARY

Recollections of John A. Bischoff, Jr.
Oral History recorded by Andrea Gabriel

in Berkeley and Rockridge between 1910 and 1937.

— John A. Bischoff, Jr.
suggestion, we drove around Rockridge in his white Vega.

revealed a bit of his own history.

Much of Rockridge's growth occurred around 1910-12 when Fred Reed
the neighborhood which was once farmland. There were independent builders too, !
electrician in San Francisco with an aptitude for design and construction. He later moved t

On a sunny but windy March day, I walked to a modest house off of Chabot

I was met at the door by a soft spoken, slightly
Having a keen eye

pointed out those houses which his father built, or those which he liked, or those

What follows is a portion of our interviews. Some of the questions have been reord

bought much of the land above Broadway and developed
' ‘n those early years. John A. Bischoff was an
o the East Bay and built several houses

Road to interview the eldest son of John Bischoff
built energetic man in his mid 70's. At his
for well designed and constructed houses, he
which triggered a memory. In between, he

ered in this published version for yi

We begin our tour b
y looking at a house his father built on
Presley Way, head down Chabot Road and over to the

magnificent Victorian house situated on the corner of Hudson
and Shafter.

Gabriel: Now this is a nice street [Presley Way]. There are
some beautiful homes here.

Bischoff: [Pointing to a nice gray house trimmed in white with
a pale pink Japanese Magnolia just starting to bloom in the
front yard] My father built that in 1931.

Gabriel: Do you remember what this street looked like [then]?

Bischoff: It was pretty well built up.

Gabriel: Was it common for a contractor or someone like your
father to build several houses on one block?

Bischoff: He did that; what others did, I don’t know. In his
younger days he would build a whole string of houses.

Gabriel: Do you know what year most of these houses on
lower Chabot were built?

Bischoff: I would say roughly 1915.

We stop on Hudson at Shafter and admire the large, pale
cream-colored Victorian. It has dark brown trim and its
“gingerbread” decoration recalls another era. There is a large
hardwood tree in the front yard; palm trees in the rear. The
grounds take up half a block on Hudson.

Bischoff: See, here it is. I was always fascinated [by it] as a
child. See, this is Shafter Avenue, and we lived on Shafter
when I started first grade — it changes over, tuming into
what they call Keith Avenue — but this was all Shafter and
it had the train tracks on it.

The basement windows are nicely cut so it looks like a
legitimate basement, and the attic up there — I guess it’s
four stories, four floors showing as windows.

Gabriel: The palms are beautiful too. It looks sort of out of
place, don't you think? — so massive. The houses around

it look much smaller in comparison.

Bischoff: Oh, yes. Oh well, I’m sure if you saw this when it
was first built, there was nothing around, then gradually it
sold off. They raise prices on the property so much that
people don’t want to hold it so they sell off. It would cost a
fortune to build something like that now. They'll have
houses just that big, but they’re going to be cement — not
going to have any that look like works of art.

Gabriel: Now the house that you lived in on Shafter, ts that
still here or was that torn down by the freeway?

Bischoff: No, it wasn’t torn down by the freeway. Right next

door to it is the firehouse and they tore it down for the

firehouse, and the schoolgrounds were expanded.
Gabriel: You went to Claremont School?

Bischoff: Yes, I started [there]. I was there about two and a

half years [from the] first grade. Of course, it’s [the original
school] been all torn down. It had to be earthquake proof, so
they tore it down. It was built in 1913 and stood up all

those years, but tear it down!

The next leg of our journey takes us up College Avenue to
Harwood —where his father built several houses — winding up

Florio and Mystic, crossing Claremont.

Bischoff: This next street will be Harwood Avenue. Now this

place right here [a large “four—plex” white apartment
building with red trim], my father built and we moved in
there the Christmas of 1914.

Gabriel: Did you like that place?

Bischoff: Oh, as a child you like everything [laughter]. I
would say I like everything. When they took me over to
Shafter and put me in school, I didn’t like that!

Gabriel: As he built things, would he move [your family] into
a place?

Bischoff: No, not particularly. Actually, he was building a
place on Russell Street and this was an intermediate move.
He knew we weren’t going to stay here. Then we moved in
[to Russell Street] and I lived there for 58 years.

Gabriel: Were you sad to give up that house? [Russell Street]

Bischoff: No, and the reason I wasn’t — maybe fate fixed it so
I wouldn’t be sad — the vandalism became a terror. I think
of it — how glad I am that my mother and father weren’t
around to see that.

Starting right here [Aubum Avenue] right down to the end, my
father built all those.

Gabriel: Are you amazed at the cost of houses these days?

Bischoff: Oh, that’s... outrageous. My father sold that house
[points to a modest house on the corner of Auburn and
Harwood] for $6,500 and I don’t know what it sold for
recently but I know that the real estate woman that sold my

place on Russell Street had it for sale for $200,000. Isn't
that outrageous?

Gabriel: When did he build that?
Bischoff: Oh, that would be about 1912 to 1915.

Mr. Bischoff points out many houses built by his father.

Almost all have a nice porch, one a Spanish style tiled roof,
another a plain slate roof. As we creep along Harwood admiring

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the homes, a curious mother and her children eye us. She
inquires if we are waiting for her. Clearly, he is proud of his
father’s work; he answers,

Bischoff: No, we were just talking about old houses. My
father built that house, oh, way back about 1912. That
apartment building back where the street curves? — I lived
in that when I was three years old! My father built that too!

On to Eton Avenue and there is a large, pale yellow
apartment building on a corner. Two white columns support a
balcony with large arched windows — another of Mr. Bischoff’ s
buildings. We pass other buildings of his on Lewiston at
Alcatraz, then back across Claremont. Heading up “The
Uplands”, down El Camino, a narrow winding street where
large, beautiful houses are slapped next together, almost on top
of one another.

We slow as we approach a garage on El Camino and I see,
as we follow on to Domingo, that the garage is part of an
enormous home — pale salmon colored, with a red tiled roof —
which rambles down the hill to Domingo. It is a magnificent
home. We pass by it on to Plaza Drive on our way out back
across Claremont to Alcatraz.

Bischoff: Now here, see the back of this house?

Gabriel: Yes, it's big! Is that one house? Actually there's an
entrance on one street [El Camino] and an entrance on the
other street [Domingo]?

Bischoff: Yes. Do you like that? My father built that! The
people’s name was Kaufmann — he built it for them. They
asked him to build a house.

Gabriel: Is that your favorite one that he bult?

Bischoff: It probably is. See this house here? [Points to a
slate grey two story house, with a white picket fence on
Plaza.] Do you like that? In 1931 I went to a party there
— acoming out party for a girl, April 1931.

Gabriel: Did you have a good time at the party?

Bischoff: I think so. I played the piano!

We drive to Russell Street where he lived for 58 years in the
house his father built. It is a deep coral color with many, many
windows and a lot of ornately decorated trim. I ask about his

father’s work.
Gabriel: Would your father buy the land and then build a house

on it and sell?
Bischoff: Yes, he’d buy the property first.
Gabriel: Would he have several people working on the

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house with him?
Bischoff: Oh yes, he always had a team working — about five,

but he did all the designing and construction. Laying out
the plans, that was all his.

Gabriel: Would you go the visit your father sometime when he
was working on these houses?

Bischoff: Oh yes!

Gabriel: Did your father have a particular design that made his
style distinctive?

Bischoff: No. Very often he’d have something that wasn’t
typical. He’d put things in as a surprise. The door with
these slashes [three long thin window panes in a door], he'd
use things like that.

Gabriel: Well, you can be proud of your father’s work, cant
you? You can drive around and see [his work].

Bischoff: Oh yes. There’s no doubt he was born with an

exceptional talent.

On our way back to Rockridge, we pass some stores on
College Avenue above Ashby and Mr. Bischoff tells me that his
father built some of those, too. We turn onto Claremont near
Brookside Drive — Brookside curves behind Claremont — a

short block where two houses now Sit.

Bischoff: See that? Well, when I was a child, it was all one
big private estate — just a beautiful estate — a big, old
fashioned, many-storied house. Fiat was the name.
Anyway, I went in there once when I had absolutely no
business in there, except that I looked in there and there was
a little bridge and a pond going underneath the bridge. |
went in there and you could see the goldfish. Alexander
came up — his father and mother owned the estate. [He]
was on a pony and he ran the pony right up to me and said,
“What are you doing here? You don’t belong here, this is
my property!” [Laughter]

Of course it was true — all very true. But the part I
didn’t like was the pony. I guess the pony was harmless,
but the pony kept pressure on. That was my only recol-
lection. I told him [Alexander] I was looking at the fish!

Gabriel: How old were you when this happened?

Bischoff: I was eight.

Gabriel: What did you do, what did you say when he ran up?

Bischoff: I don’t know. I’m sure I told him I was looking at
the fish and I don’t know whether he said, “Go look at some
other fish! [Laughter] If Alexander’s alive, I guess he
wishes they held it together. You can imagine what it’s
worth now!

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“Grassroots”, from page 1

planning process as a way of off-setting project costs. As
Rockridge neighbors in the audience looked on, the City
Council voted 9-0 to adopt a resolution “evidencing the City
Council’s intent to consider adoption of a Specific Plan for the
Rockridge Area and directing the City Manager to identify and
provide the Council with a report on the resources that will be
required for preparation of a Specific Plan.”

Vice-Mayor Gibson pledged to seek additional support from
the University of California City Planning Department which
currently has a graduate studio collecting data on Rockridge
parking, circulation and development patterns. Another
possibility includes creating City Planning Intern positions
through the UC Work-Study program which could fund a full-
lime planner to work on specific projects.

Community Participation Essential

SO now it’s up to us! It’s time for all you planners,
architects, horticulturalists, grant-writers, artists, engineers,
draftsmen, lawyers, economists and environmentalists to come
to the aid of your community! We need your professional
knowledge, your skills, your time, energy and commitment!
We need to show the Oakland City Council that we have
substantial planning resources right here in the Neighborhood!

And that’s not all! We need volunteers who have ideas and
information, who are good at organization, at publicity, at
facilitating public discussion, at typing, notetaking, document-
keeping, and telephoning.

We need volunteers to do photocopying, computer mailings,
and library research. We need photographers, historians, and
community outreach liaisons to make sure that everyone -
-- even people who may prefer to work outside RCPC or
CAMA --- has a chance to participate fully.

Committee Sign-ups at April 15th Meeting

Community participation will be accomplished through the
Committee system. Each committee will be co-chaired by a
RCPC Board member and a CAMA member. Each committee
will work closely with Oakland City Planning staff.
Committees will meet at least once a month. All Community
member are welcome to serve on a committee.

There will be six committees:

«Design Elements/Streetscape

«Land Use

¢Circulation/Parking

¢Existing Large Sites/Facilities

¢ Implementation

¢ Coordination/Liaison

Each committee will do the following tasks:

«Establish study area focus

«Define relevant topics and issues

«Collect information

-Do research, prepare findings and recommendations

-Report to RCPC and CAMA Boards and Board

representatives.

At the April and May General Meetings of RCPC, we will
devote much of the agenda to organizing committees and
brainstorming on “Issues and Opportunities facing the
Rockridge Community.” Come and indicate which issues you
think should be addressed. We’ll discuss the issues,

opportunities, and scope of work involved in each committee.
Then we’ll divide up into groups and talk more in detail.

Not sure on which Committee you want lo serve? Then try

one on for size in April and try another one at the May Genera]
Meeting.

Questions? Call:

Barbara Anderson (H: 655-3499)
Richard Smith (W: 981-6076)
Brooke Levin (H: 653-7522)
Bill Chung (W: 653-1567)

fill out the
survey.

Help make
your
Rockridge

NEWS IN BRIEF...

¢ Wilson Associates is seeking a Major Conditional Use

Permit for additional food purveyors in the Rockridge
Market Hall at College and Shafter. The applicants
include: Glen’s Bakery, E.G. Kroger Coffee, Tea, Chocolate;
Market Hall Caterers and Kitchen; Country Fresh Produce;
Alan’s Fish and Poultry. The use permit also includes a
second-floor café/restaurant (80 seats) serving lunch and
dinner with a beer and wine license.

Public Hearing by the Planning Commision is set for April
15, 1:30 P.M.; application CM 87-109.

The public hearing continues on the Fit Lab application to

be located in Rockridge Court. The applicant seeks a Major

Conditional Use Permit for this use, considered a “group

assembly” activity. At issue is location of the seven required

off-street parking spaces. Two spaces will be located within

Rockridge Court. It is proposed that the remaining five

= poe be provided at the nearby parking lot of Better Homes
ty.

Public Hearing by the Planning Commission is set for April

15, 1:30 P.M.; application CMV 87-87.

© STRICTLY RUMORS DEPARTMENT

° The Department of Social Services is interested in
relocating to the Old Safeway building at Claremont and
Clifton.

; Dreyer’s Is gearing up again to go ahead with its office
expansion proposal and has resumed work on their EIR
and traffic study.

ROCKRIDGE AREA SPECIFIC PLAN (RASP)

N-Bel-GeH-B-Q:.R-H-O-O.D R-B-§.-0O-U-R-C-E §-U-R-VeiB-Y

Name:
Address:
Phone: (day) (eve)

|_} Yes, I want to express my views on planning for Rockridge’s future. I want to

participate in the preparation of the Rockridge Area Specific Plan in the following
ways:

|_} I can offer my professional skills as a:
(e.g., planner, architect, designer, graphic artist, grant—writer, historian,
environmentalist, draftsman, computer programmer, lawyer, economist,
accountant, bookkeeper, engineer)

My profession is:

|_} I can offer my organizational skills:

(e.g., facilitating meetings, publicity, typing, notetaking, document-keeping,
telephoning, computer—input, photocopying, library research,
photographing, other?)

My skills are:

|_} I want to sign up for the following committee(s):

Design/Streetscape
Land Use

Circulation/Parking
Existing Large Sites/Facilities

Implementation
Coordination/Liaison

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|_J I’m not sure yet how I can best participate. Please telephone me to talk it over:
Phone: (day) (eve)

|_J Yes, I want to help, but can’t in person.
Here’s a check for $ to defray expenses.

|_} Yes, I want to participate and suggest the following individuals as possible

resources:
Name Phone
Name Phone
Name Phone

Please bring this survey to the RCPC General Meeting Wednesday, April 15,
7:30 P.M. at the College Avenue Presbyterian Church, or mail it to:

Rockridge Community Planning Council
6225 Ross Street
Oakland, California 94618

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Candidates for City Council, At-Large...

Carlson Bobino

| believe the most pressing issues
facing the North Oakland Community are
Oakland’s procedure for public notice of
development proposals, growth and
development issues, sweeping plans, the
fire station and the creation of a new zone
which would maintain the provisions of
the existing C-30 zone.

All neighborhood communities such
as Rockridge Community Planning
Council should have control over
planning for new businesses, apartment
houses, neighborhood schools, and
services like the library. This control
should be shared with the elected District
official and the At-Large official.

My goal will be to work to introduce
new Strategies to reduce the crime rate and
drugs being sold in Oakland. I will work
on housing the homeless and presenting
to the public correct budget projections. |
will work energetically with small and
large businesses to bring about a stronger
economic development program through-
Out the city.

We, the Taxpayers, should not be
penalized for incorrect budget projections,
when at the same time the city council is
voting themselves raises and renovating
the council offices, lending millions to
the Oakland A’s and the Hyatt Regency
Hotel. I am in favor of local campaign
reform ordinances.

We need a change! I know that our
citizenry needs to be in charge of their
destiny. I am _ seeking the job of
Councilperson because our city needs a
change in its leadership.

The city needs a new refreshing talent
that will provide a positive image for
Oakland. I am well qualified to provide
that talent and insight and will represent
the citizens of Oakland.

J am married and the father of four
children. I graduated from the Oakland
school system (Cole, Elmhurst and
Castlemont High School). I graduated
from U.C. Berkeley with a Master’s
Degree in Health Planning and
Administrauon. I have served on the
Boards of the Elmhurst District Council,
Oakland Housing Authority, East Oakland
Switchboard, East Oakland Health Center
and the West Oakland Health Center. I
am also on the Board of Career Training
Institute. Our city needs a change. Please
join me in that change.

Ignacio de la Fuente

The issues facing the Rockridge Area
are little different than those which face
our other neighborhoods: Neighborhood
control of neighborhood planning issues,
better delivery of city services and
controlling crime and drug abuse.

Our City Council is indifferent, at
best, to the interests of _ the
neighborhoods. |The City Council’s
misguided priorities of providing loans to
sports franchises, bail-outs to luxury
hotels, and the destruction of Chinatown
have sapped the resources of Oakland’s
neighborhoods.

The City Council must take a stronger
role and give more guidance to the City
Planning Department Staff. The Council
must put more pressure on the Mayor to
appoint persons on the Planning
Commission who have a commitment to
Oakland, who listen to neighborhood
interests and are not controlled by
downtown development interests.

The City Council MUST be willing
to provide more city services. It is
Outrageous that we pay for street cleaning
services which are either not performed or
are performed incompetently. The planned
elimination of the fire station in North
Oakland is a prime example of the
vacuum in which the City Council’s
planning process operates.

North Oakland, both residents and
businesses, must deal with crime and
drugs in real terms. Motels are used as
substandard housing units which are
inhabited solely by drug dealers and
prostitutes. The people of the
neighborhoods, near Telegraph in
particular, are afraid to go out at night.
The City Council must rededicate itself to
providing expanded, community oriented
police services.

Finally, I am a candidate of fierce
independence who is beholden to no
special interest. As Business Manager for
the International Molders Union, the
revitalization of Oakland’s economic base,
attraction of new employment oppor-
tunities for our residents and the retention
of jobs already here are my major focus,
My election to the Oakland City Council
will serve notice to all the politicians who
are in the pocket of the mayor and
developers that the concerns of the poeple
who live in our neighborhoods will come
first.

OOOO

Malcolm Kelly

As candidate, I consider the issues of
Crime, Unemployment, and Neighbor-
hood Revitalization as being the three
most pressing issues facing the North
Oakland Community.

First, Crime has become so prevalent
in Oakland until we are unable to walk in
certain areas of North Oakland without
becoming a crime vicum. The high
incidence of crimes, coupled with drug
abuse, act as deterrents for businesses and

home buyers/renters seeking to locate in
the district. |

Second, unemployment, while not as
high overall in the district as other areas
of the city, nevertheless is at an

unacceptable level for those young people
seeking employment for the first ume. _

Third, Neighborhood Revitalization is
essential if we are to improve the aesthetic
appeal of many buildings -- commercial
and personal use --- in the North Oakland
Community. Many of the unsightly
buildings serve as a gathering spot for
persons to engage in illicit activities.
However, we also must ensure that any
revitalization program include a thorough
re-evaluation of the city’s antiquated Land-
Use policies.

As City Councilman, I would work to
achieve the goals of:

1. Re-organize the spending priorities
currently used by the council to invest in
failing private business ventures such as:
the Hyatt Hotel, Oakland A’s Baseball
Team, DynaKor and the attempted
purchase of a Football Team.

a. Re-organize the — current
Minority Equity participation Program to
ensure that all small businesses operating
in economically deprived areas of the city
are allowed to participate in the program.
Included in the participation criteria will
be the requirement that qualified
businesses must employ four or more
employees.

2. Develop an Oakland strategy to
organize the Clergy, Businesspersons,
Educators and Community  Repre-
sentatives to systematically fight against
widespread drug addiction and related
crimes. Intrinsically, the strategy will
focus on creating employment oppor-
tunities for the addicts and sellers of drugs.

a. Incorporate a marketing plan to
encourage new business to locate into
previously high crime areas.

See Kelly, next page, bottom left

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At-—Lar ge Candidates . «Continued

Mary Emily Lintner

The three most pressing issues to me
of any community in Oakland are:
|. Drugs
2. AIDS
3, Economic tum-around and come-back.
These may seem broad and not to the
point in the North Oakland community,
bul if we can solve these problems, it will
be to the benefit of all Oakland.

First, I would try to push for more
policemen on the Vice Squad who are
trained and authorized to make drug busts,
and to hire more police to patrol in and
around schools and housing areas to
observe and apprehend adults who
approach children and force them in to
pushing drugs. Why not more
neighborhood foot police and mounted
police to patrol difficult and dangerous
areas?

Having been mugged in broad daylight
at 1025—2nd Avenue parking lot by two
youngsters controlled by an adult, this is a
very personal issue!

A harder issue is that of controlling
banks, corporations and individuals who
deal in drugs and launder the money. This
will take the co-operation of the whole
community.

Second, as to AIDS. I agree with Dr.
Smith, Alameda County health officer,
that high-risk persons like prostitutes and
drug-users who “knowingly and willingly”
infect others and refuse to get more
information or to change their life-style
shoud be quarantined. Also, more
information concerning the spread of
AIDS should be disseminated to everyone -
-- especially sexually-active teenagers.

Third, to improve the economy is a
world-wide issue and has to do with
lowering interest rates for everyone and
providing low cost, long-term credit to
industries and farmers who provide our
food and infrastructure, thus providing
more jobs. To control the IMF which is
charging poor countries with high interest
rates -- this is against our reputation for
fair trade practices and penalizes us as
well.

Kelly, from previous page

3. Establish an effective working
relationship between the City Council and
School Board Directors to promote

effective communication and sharing of
information so that the two public entities
are working together for the betterment of
educating our youth.

Frank Ogawa

[ would like to see controlled growth
and continue the strong economic base
that is in Rockridge now, and improve the
off-street parking situation, which is
important to the businesses as well as the
residents who live near the BART station.

Public safety is another area of my
concem. In order to have a_ healthy
neighborhood, we must provide efficient
and visible Police and Fire departments. I
have been endorsed as I have been in the
past, both by the Police and the Fire
department.

I will continue to work on my belief
that the City must look toward increasing
its revenue, rather than cut services.

Rockridge area has been one of our
strong assets, and has certainly helped to
improve the image of our City.

I have always worked closely together
with the neighborhood groups, and
together with the other elected officials as
evidenced by my endorsers. It takes five
votes to pass anything, and I believe
working together is an important factor.

Don Mackle

No statement submitted.

Neighborhood Groups
Put On A Successful
Candidates’ Night |

Three cheers for everyone in the North
Oakland Neighborhood merchant and
resident groups who helped organize last
month’s successful Candidates’ Night:
more than 150 people tured out to hear
candidates competing for District 1 and
At-Large City Council seats.

Thanks especially to

Oakland Technical High School
principal

Dennis K. Chaconas

who moderated the event.
Thank you to

the Oakland Public Schools
for waiving the fee to use the
Claremont Middle School
meeting room and thanks to
Claremont’s Staff

for helpng with arrangements.

Extra big thanks to all the organizations
who supported the event and to the
Steering Committee members

who did so much work

to assure that the event

went smoothly and fairly.

Members of the Candidates’ Night
Committee include:

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Be Sure To Vote
On April 21!

Walter Miles
John Wagers

Jo Ellis

Bill Chung
Barry Epstein
Don Kinkead
Bobbie Kinkead
Eddie Zeidan
Nancy Dutcher
Karen Paulsell
Ethel Ruymaker
Jack Brown
Esther McFeely
Elaine Smagon
Barbara Anderson
Bill Lowe

Elen Hansen
Deidra Schneider
Jim Faulk

B.A. Bell

Ray Perman

The Rockridge News

April 11, 1987

Page 8

Council Votes
For Neighborhoods

In. a burst of enthusiastic support for Neighborhood
preservation and planning, the City Council voted April 7 in
favor of two proposals backed by residents:

The Popeye's restaurant approved by the Planning

Commission was overturned by the Council on appeal of the

38th Street and Mosswood Neighborhoods;

— The Upper Telegraph Coalition was granted a ninety day
moratorium on use permits for automotive and fast-food
outlets to better prepare an Area Specific Plan.

Strong community presence at the Council meeting helped

convince Council members of the importance of these issues to
the Neighborhoods.

You're Invited!
Come to the
College Avenue
Merchant's Association
Spring
Sidewalk Sale/Open House
saturday May 2, 1987 11-4

OAKLAND-DURANT-ROCKRIDGE
LODGE #188 F&AM
5449 College Avenue

Stated Meeting Tuesday, May 5, 8 P.M.
Sojourners Welcome — Dinner at 6:30 P.M.

Masonic Information Round Table
Saturday, May 2, 10 A.M.
Refreshments

For Further Information Contact:

Julius Kahn, II, Master
Bus. 421-3939 Lodge 655-9353

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It’s Time To Make This Call!

Neighborhood residents with a knowledge of the
area are invited to volunteer some time to help
with the U.C. Urban Design Seminar research.

They will show you how you can help.
Call 642-3559 to volunteer!

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5642 College Avenue —«7 AM to Midnight
At Rockridge BART 7 Days A Week

— — 428-9256 —

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